"It’s heartbreaking,” Wilson said. "You feel guilty. The hardest part is that one-year anniversary. I stood over my mother’s grave, and said, ‘I’m so sorry.’ You feel like you want justice ... on this earth — and then you realize, it may not happen.”

Frieda Dighton, Wilson’s mother, was killed in the bedroom of her rural Buffalo Valley home June 5, 2008.

Dighton, 67, drove each day to visit her husband, C.R., in a Talihina veterans home, and she lived alone.

To date, no arrests have been made.

"I can’t imagine going a whole year without someone being caught,” said Pitchford, whose father, Joe Neff, 61, disappeared from his Long Branch Saloon in Poteau May 14.

Fishermen found the bar owner’s body three days later in an old mining strip near Pocola.